The Gruesome Art Of Keeping Death Alive

Consider the following, admittedly morbid, parlor game: If every prominent musician who died prematurely had lived to the present day, who would have the best discography? It’s impossible to know, of course, but there aren’t any easy answers. Would Jimi Hendrix have continued inventing new ways to play the electric guitar, or would he have settled into a comfortable career of middling, lucrative blues rock, the way Eric Clapton did? Would Kurt Cobain’s cynical songwriting genius have cu...

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